The fine article by Pam Linn, “World War II Stories Honor Memorial Day” (May 27) was timely as Memorial Day and D-Day remembrances were our national reverie from May 31 to June 6. My book, “WW II Homeland Defense: U.S. Coast Guard Beach Patrol in Malibu, 1942-1944,” was written to document the brief but important Malibu segment of homeland defense along all the seacoasts of America during WW II. My placement of the book in various archives should assure this history will be available to future generations.
Three members of the “Greatest Generation,” George Stein, Mary Low and Gloria Keen, provided facts, personal letters, pictures and stories about their Malibu experience that would otherwise have been lost to the ages. I wanted their families to have the book in which their Coast Guard husbands and fathers carried out homeland defense in an earlier era, now that protection of our homeland is so much a part of our national consciousness. The few books that remain are samples for prospective publishers who might want to republish this book to a local and broader market.
Ronald L. Rindge